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DOI: 10.46698/VNC.2026.99.60.004 ARTISTIC REPRESENTATION OF THE HISTORY OF THE ADYGHE ETHNOS IN THE NOVEL “KHATTI” BY ANFISA KANUKOVA-FIROVA
Khavzhokova, Lyudmila B.
Izvestia SOIGSI. 2026. Issue 60 (99). P.123-131.
Abstract:
The article for the first time examines the manuscript of the novel-trilogy “Hatti” by the Adyghe (Kabardian) writer Anfisa Azretalievna Kanukova-Firova (born in 1984) in an authorized translation into Russian. The purpose of the study is to identify the specifics of the artistic embodiment of the proto-history of the Adyghe ethnic group in the context of the declared epic canvas. To achieve this goal, a range of tasks is solved: a brief overview of the formation and development of the novel genre, in particular the genre form of the historical novel, in Adyghe literature is provided; innovative forms of the national novel of the 21st century are highlighted; the history of the creation of the novel “Hatti” in the Kabardino-Circassian language and its translation into Russian is studied; the genre affiliation of the work is established; artistic features of the research material are revealed, an analysis of its content, composition, poetics is carried out; the mytho-folklore basis of the novel is considered. The relationship between the author’s fiction and historical truth in the analyzed prose discourse is determined. The need to solve these problems necessitates the use of a complex of scientific methods in the work, among the dominant ones being the cultural-historical, hermeneutic, structural-descriptive methods, as well as the methods of immanent and contextual analysis. The obtained results allow us to conclude that there is a progressive tendency in modern Adyghe novelistics to actualize ancient history as one of the main objects of artistic understanding of the existence and mentality of the ethnic group. In this context, the novel “Hatti” by A. Kanukova- Firova is the only epic work to date that creatively vividly and, as far as possible, historically accurately illuminates the distant past of the ancestors of the Adyghe, dating back to the 13th-12th centuries BC. The novel is an original example of the author’s mythologizing prose, in which one can observe “modeling the text as a myth” (the expression of K.N. Paranuk). At the same time, the work displays characteristics and features of the historical epic novel, the mythical novel, and the family chronicle novel. The narrative language is rich and saturated with ethnocultural symbolism, nationally marked images, and archaic vocabulary, which together represent the spiritual world of the ethnic group from its ancient origins.
Keywords: Adyghe (Kabardian) prose, A. Kanukova-Firova, “Hatti”, historical epic novel, mythnovel, chronicle novel, ethnic picture of the world.
Language:: Russian
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 For citation:: Khavzhokova, L.B. Artistic representation of the history of the Adyghe ethnos in the novel “Khatti” by Anfisa Kanukova-Firova // Izvestiya SOIGSI. 2026. Iss. 60 (99). Pp. 123-131. (in Russian). DOI 10.46698/VNC.2026.99.60.004 ← Contents of issue |
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